{"id":11360,"date":"2013-10-11T14:16:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T19:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11360"},"modified":"2013-10-11T14:16:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T19:16:51","slug":"russian-topol-missile-test-spotted-from-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11360","title":{"rendered":"Russian Topol missile test spotted from ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This matches. The missile has three stages (like the old Saturn V rockets that took humans to the Moon), and what the astronauts saw may have been a fuel dump from the second stage or the last of the fuel leaking away after the booster phase was complete. In space, the cloud would expand more or less freely, moving rapidly as it traveled along with the booster in its path. In the photo, you can see a slight streaking to the cloud, most likely due to motion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2013\/10\/11\/russian_topol_missile_test_spotted_from_iss.html\">Russian Topol missile test spotted from ISS.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/iss_russianmissile2.jpg.CROP_.original-original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11364\" alt=\"iss_russianmissile2.jpg.CROP.original-original\" src=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/iss_russianmissile2.jpg.CROP_.original-original.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/iss_russianmissile2.jpg.CROP_.original-original.jpg 590w, http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/iss_russianmissile2.jpg.CROP_.original-original-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/iss_russianmissile2.jpg.CROP_.original-original-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOriginal tweet from astronaut<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AstroIllini\/status\/388414018995494915\/photo\/1\"> Mike Hopkins here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This matches. The missile has three stages (like the old Saturn V rockets that took humans to the Moon), and what the astronauts saw may have been a fuel dump from the second stage or the last of the fuel &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11360\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[1196,879,626,512],"class_list":["post-11360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-iss","tag-rocket-science","tag-russians","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11365,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions\/11365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}